Residents clean up Aug. 8 on Pine Street in Kimberly after a fast-moving storm that produced tornadoes, damaged vehicles and homes, and downed trees as it passed through the Fox Cities.

Written by

Jim Collar
Post-Crescent Media

While an independent review determined that Outagamie County followed policy in responding to the early August outbreak of severe storms, the inquiry exposed several vulnerabilities in the county's emergency response plan.

A Post-Crescent Media review of county correspondence drafted in the weeks after the storms showed questions and controversy over the initial handling took a back seat to the cleanup tasks at hand.

Outagamie County Executive Thomas Nelson vowed to make improvements based on the findings of a report issued last week by Fox Valley Technical College on the county's ...